Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-18
WITH THE YACHTS.

The New Haven Yachtsmen at stony
 Creek-A Quiet Day-Of For New
 London TO-DaY-The Atlantic Club
 at Black Rock.
 A cool southerly breeze made life bearable among the yachtsmen and others at Stony Creek yesterday and the many yachts of the New Haven and Atlantic Yacht clubs pre- sented pretty sight as they lay at anchor in the vicinity of the islands and Flying Point, riding gracefully up and down on the swell
 which rolled in from the Sound between Money, Pot, High and Governors islands.
 The cottagers on the islands spent the day in sitting around reading and enjoying the
 breeze, while the yachtsmen loitered around the hotel verandas and decks of the yachts. The fleet started from the club house early l Saturday afternoon and the Ceres was the | first yacht to drop anchor off the Island View House about 4 o'clock, and by o'clock | the other yachts were riding at anchor. During the evening Landlord Northrop gave the yachtsmen @ hop in the spacious dining 1 rooms of the Island View House and among those who took part were Commodore Wheeler, Fleet Captain R. R. Hopkins, jr., and wife, Captain J. H. Parish, Captain J.H. l Seymour, Secretary of State L. M. Hubbard
 
 Miss Ida Byxbee, the Misses Boardman of Hartford, Miss Hubbard of Hartford, Miss Agnes Porter of New Britain, the Misses Peck of New Haven, Miss Celia Moses, Miss Curtiss of Meriden, W. A. Cowles, F. w. Wallace of Ansonia, F. E. Sands of Meriden, ex-City Attorney Coogan and Dr. Bullock of Hartford, Miss Mildred Embler of New Ha. ven, Attorneys William Pardee and A. w. Wheeler of this city.
 Early this morning the yachts which in tend going op the cruise with the Atlantic club will sail for New London, where they meet with the Atlantic club yachts and pro ceed on the rest of the cruise with them. The fleet of the Atlantic Yacht club arrived
 at Black Rock at nine o'clock Saturday night after trying and tedious day of calm on the Sound. The George Hotel was brilliantly il- luminated with Japanese lanterns and there was fine display of fireworks. The incom- ing yachts were welcomed and the lawn was ablaze with colored lights, and skyrockets flashed out their greeting as the boats round ed the lighthouse and made for the anchor age in front of the hotel. A deputation from the guests of the hotel went on board the flagship Rover as soon as her an- chor was dropped, and 8 cordial invitation members and guests of the club to be present at grand hop given in compliment to the Atlantic Yacht club. The boats got under way from New Rochelle at 9h. Som. Saturday morning, in obedience to the starting gun from the flagship. It took quite while to get out of the harbor for the light easterly
 wind was feeting and bafding and the sea smooth as mirror, and the torrid rays of the sun came down with melting heat. How ever, in about three quarters of an hour the yachts got fairly out to sea.
 Thirteen of them started. which perhaps accounts for the bad luck which attended them all day; they were the Rover, Ashlon, Onward, Enterprise, Stella, Fanita, Concord, Rover, Nirvana, Clean, Arab, Curlew and Leona. The schooner Gevalia and the sloop Vixen came out of Larchmont later in the day.
 To-day the yachts go to New London and from there will commence the real work of the cruise in which the New Haven clubs yachts participate.